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Re: st: dirifit


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: dirifit
Date   Wed, 5 Mar 2008 18:02:59 +0000 (GMT)

You can do something like:
list y1-y5 if e(sample)

-- Maarten

--- Viktor Slavtchev <[email protected]> wrote:

> - Maarten
> It works properly when using 
> http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/c/citybudget.dta.
> I've got estimation based on 392 observations (there are 37 missings
> out 
> of 429).
> Hence, the problem seems to be in my dependent variable.
> In order to be sure, I've generated random distributed independent
> but 
> still get estimation for 60 cases.
> Is there any possibility in -dirifit- to find out, which these 60 
> observations are?
> Viktor
> 
> 
> Maarten buis wrote:
> > -- Viktor Slavtchev wrote:
> >   
> >> I want to explain the share of time, that individuals spent in
> five 
> >> alternatives (y1 - y5). Hence y1+y2+y3+y4+y5=1.
> >> Therefore I run:
> >> dirifit y1-y5, mu(x1 x2)
> >> It works, however, for only 60 cases out of more than 500. In
> other 
> >> words, the estimation is done for only 60 cases.
> >> Indeed, there are exactly 60 individuals which spent their full
> time
> >> in only one possibility.
> >>     
> >
> > That is weird, it should actually exclude all casses where one
> category
> > gets all the time or no time at all. -dirifit- works as expectd if
> I do
> > the following:
> >
> > use http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/c/citybudget.dta
> > dirifit governing - urbanplanning,  ///
> >         mu( houseval popdens noleft minorityleft )
> >
> > -- Maarten
> >
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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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